June 1895.] 



GENERAL AGRICULTURAL NOTES. 



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In respect of bee-keeping, it is stated that the expectations, 

 which had been entertained, that a market would soon be opened 

 in England for the surplus honey products of the colony have 

 not been fulfilled. It seems that many inquiries have been 

 made by travellers for British provision merchants, but they 

 cannot be referred to any firm in South Australia which will 

 undertake to receive, grade, and consign honey and wax, and 

 the output at present is not sufficiently large to tempt any 

 English firm to establish a depot for these products alone. The 

 total yearly production of honey in South Australia is estimated 

 at about 600 tons, and, at the date of the report, it was calculated 

 that probably 200 tons were held in stock, which would be 

 gladly sold at 2^(1 to 2hd. per pound free on board at Port 

 Adelaide. It is believed that with caution in grading, and proper 

 treatment in the markets, there would be an excellent outlet for 

 South Australian honey in Great Britain. 



Creameries and Cheese Factories in Nova Scotia. 



The Secretary for Agriculture for Nova Scotia, in hi^ report 

 for the year 1894, c:dls the attention of the parties interested to 

 the following extract from an Act passed on the ] 2th day of 

 February 1894:— 



" Any person, firm, or association establishing and maintaining 

 a creamery and cheese factory in Nova Scotia shall be entitled 

 to receive from the Provincial Treasury the following sums : two 

 hundred dollars in the first year in which such creamery and 

 cheese factory shall be in operation ; one hundred dollars in the 

 second year, and one hundred dollars in the third year. Pro- 

 vided, however, that these grants shall not be paid for more 

 than three factories in any county. No grants shall be paid lo 

 any factory established after the first day of January 1899." 



Regulations have been made for carrying out the provisions 

 of the Act which provide that the minimum pi'oduction of butter 

 at one factory for which a grant shall be paid shall be not less 

 than one-third of the product of two hundred cows, and that for 

 the second and third years the creamery shall be operated for a 

 period of not less than five months of each year. 



During the first year of its operation the creamery may be 

 limited to the making of butter alone, without disqualifying for 

 the grant, but during the second and third years both cheese 

 and butter are to be made at suitable seasons and in reasonable 

 proportions. 



The grant of two hundred dollars under the Act, for the 

 first year in which a creamery shall be in operation, will be paid 

 to the person, firm, or association in whose name the original 

 application was made, after the creamery has been continuously 

 in operation for a period of not less than one calendar month, to 

 the satisfaction of the Secretary of Agriculture, or such person 



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